Vuitton’s easy style is out of this world

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Nicolas Ghesquière offered a deliciously easy-breezy way of dressingMichael Nelson/EPA

Anna MurphyFashion Director

Published at 12:01AM, May 8 2015

The Louis Vuitton designer Nicolas Ghesquière has a vision that is reliably
futurist, relentlessly fashion-forward.

What better setting, then, for the label’s Cruise 2016 show than a UFO-like
house in Palm Springs once owned by Bob Hope and widely considered to be a
masterpiece of modernist architecture. As the sun set, the Ladies who Liner
were given a preview of what they will wear come November.

Ghesquière’s aesthetic was as bravura as ever. Dramatically cropped
midriff-exposing jackets were given an extra edge with a bandolier-style
criss-cross of a belt. But there was a new softness, with long, flowing
chiffon skirts